PLATFORM
The GlobeDoc Platform
The GlobeDoc platform is a working research platform for patient co-owned health records, built on international standards.
Who GlobeDoc is for
One health record that follows the person, not the system. GlobeDoc is designed for anyone whose health information is scattered across clinics, countries or years.
The refugee
Fleeing without records, and needing care in a new country, in a new language.
The traveller
Falling ill or having an accident abroad, with the clinician able to read the record at once.
The expat family
Living across borders, with children's vaccinations and records in several countries.
The person with several conditions
Many specialists and medications, and one complete overview instead of fragments.
The parent and carer
Keeping track of a child's or an elderly relative's health, with their consent.
The guest worker and student
Moving for work or study, and needing prescriptions and care far from home.
The citizen without national e-health
Living where no digital health record exists, and finally owning one.
The clinician
Receiving a patient from another country and understanding their history in WHO's own codes.
In every case, the patient decides who sees what, through a one-time pairing code.
Standards and interoperability
The GlobeDoc platform uses international classifications so that a health record can be understood by any clinician, in any country and language. GlobeDoc is a research platform under active development.
In use today
- Diagnoses in ICD-11 (WHO): searchable in all 43 languages supported by WHO, with the ICD-11 code stored for each condition and shown throughout the record. Current, chronic and past resolved conditions are recorded with year.
- Procedures in ICHI (WHO): the International Classification of Health Interventions, for operations, procedures and clinical contacts.
- Medicines in ATC (WHO): with drug names from the NIH RxNorm database (over 100,000 generic and brand names), including dose, frequency, indication, over-the-counter products, supplements and recently stopped medicines.
- Vaccination card: likely childhood vaccines suggested from national immunisation schedules, based on WHO data and the person’s birth year, with booster tracking, travel and other vaccines, and a card that can be shared or downloaded.
- Travel vaccine planner: based on the person’s own vaccine history and destination.
- Clinically structured safety data: drug, food, environmental and contact allergies, and contrast and anaesthetic reactions, each with reaction type, severity and EpiPen status, kept separate from drug intolerances for safe prescribing.
- Family history: hereditary conditions linked to specific relatives, and import of raw genetic data (23andMe, AncestryDNA, VCF and BAM), stored encrypted and shared only with explicit consent. GlobeDoc does not interpret raw DNA.
- Lifestyle and risk: tobacco, alcohol, substance use, exercise, diet, sleep, BMI and mental health, recorded confidentially to support safe care.
- One record, everywhere: a feed and timeline of the whole record, with personal notes, documents, medical images and lab results, and the locations where a person’s records are held worldwide, by institution, city and country.
- Patient-controlled sharing: clinicians gain access only through a one-time pairing code issued by the patient, valid from 10 minutes to 7 days, with an optional reason for visit to help the clinician prepare.
- For healthcare professionals: a separate professional account to view and contribute to the records of patients who have shared a pairing code, with professional licence details and an optional licence document.
- Patient rights under the GDPR: full data export (PDF and JSON), a personal consent record, and permanent deletion of all data (Article 17).
- Privacy by design: no health data is ever sent to translation services; menus and buttons are translated, records stay in their original language.
- Accessible: installable on any phone as a web app, with no app store needed, and an interface in 26 languages.
Our explicit goals
- Interoperability: exchange of records through HL7 FHIR and the International Patient Summary (IPS), with SNOMED CT alongside ICD-11 for clinical detail.
- Records retrieved for the patient: automated retrieval of a person’s records from the institutions they have listed, region by region.
- Privacy-preserving AI: federated learning, so that AI can learn without health data leaving the patient’s device, and homomorphic encryption, so that data can be analysed without being decrypted.
- A decentralised audit trail (GlobeDoc Chain): recording every access to a record.
- Strong identification: national eIDs such as BankID, multi-factor and biometric login.
- Verified healthcare professionals: verification of professional licences before access.
- Humanitarian and remote settings: offline use and low-bandwidth performance.
- Regulatory compliance: meeting the requirements of the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR), with CE marking for any functions classified as medical devices.
- European alignment: with the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
- Recognition as a Digital Public Good.
Standards & Compliance
Patients control access to their own record. No data is shared with clinicians or researchers without the patient’s explicit consent, and consent can be withdrawn at any time. Data is stored within the EU (Frankfurt, Germany).
GPOC is designed in line with the GDPR and the principles of the European Health Data Space (EHDS), with interoperability through HL7 FHIR as an explicit goal. As the platform matures, we intend to pursue relevant certifications, including ISO/IEC 27001 for information security.
Become a pilot partner
We are looking for hospitals, primary care, and humanitarian and international organisations that want to pilot a patient co-owned health record with us, and for researchers who want to build on the platform. Pilots are non-profit and research-based, with patient consent at the core.